I was at the UN general assembly in New York the other day and talking to the foreign minister of another country. I won’t say which one, since I must preserve my reputation for diplomacy. But let’s just say they have an economy about the size of Australia (though getting smaller, alas), plenty of snow, […]
Somebody had to dilute the intoxicating cocktail of Brexit triumphalism being served up at the Conservative Party conference, and the new chancellor Philip Hammond was the man. Never the most dazzling of orators, he nonetheless managed to fill the hall of the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, so the audience had to spill over to […]
‘Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World’ by Iain Martin (Sceptre) In 1986, at the height of the greatest deal-making frenzy the City of London had ever seen, the US brokerage giant Salomon Brothers was in advance negotiations to buy the venerable British firm […]
You’ve got to be pretty hardy to have attended the Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton this week. While the party can proudly point to some genuine success in council by-elections, it is a paltry force in Parliament, gets consistently pulverised in national polls, and (for the second time in the space of a few years) […]
Along with my Cato Institute colleague, the economist Daniel Mitchell, I spent the last weekend in Prague, at the annual meeting of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. The AECR is comprised of European political parties that are committed to “individual liberty, national sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, private property, low taxes, […]
Britain’s Brexit negotiating position – imposing limits on freedom of movement, while simultaneously seeking free single market access in goods and services – is difficult, if not impossible, to square with the four freedoms entrenched in EU treaty law. Freedom of movement for people, goods, services, and capital within the EU single market is an […]
In the coverage for our new report on the UK Border Force, “The Border After Brexit”, it’s understandable that most newspapers focused on its security failings. It’s obviously worrying and noteworthy that potentially thousands of high-risk flights are being missed, and no note of this is being made. But this is best understood as one symptom […]
With a Conservative majority and all the Labour leadership candidates saying they support a referendum on our EU membership, it now seems certain we shall have one in either 2017 or 2016. The options will be to either leave or stay on the terms secured in a renegotiation, which is apparently to be completed by this […]
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